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A Fair Message Exchange Framework for Distributed Multi-Player Games

Overview This paper presents a framework for message delivery in real-time multi-player distributed interactive games that use the client-server model. Based on this framework, the paper proposes message delivery algorithms that remove the unfair advantage that players with smaller message delays from the game server receive over players with large message delays from the server.

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Publisher	Lucent Technologies	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2003	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Design

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